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Nuggets: Buddy box ends arguments over PC
News End arguments over whose turn on the PC it is for £139.95. Eurotech does its bit to promote domestic harmony. Eurotech has come up with a brilliant idea. Buddy B-200 -- just couldn't resist tacking that bit on the end could it -- is a device that...
[April 29, 1999, 16:13]
Final arguments begin in Microsoft case
News Microsoft and nine plaintiff states return to the courtroom on Wednesday for closing arguments in the software giant's antitrust remedy proceeding. It will be interesting to see if the states mention modular Windows during the closing arguments...
[June 20, 2002, 7:32]
Contract arguments reanimate SCO dispute
News In the latest step in a legal battle over Unix copyrights, Novell has filed a countersuit against the SCO Group, charging it with twice breaking a contract. The software company also accused SCO with slander of title for claiming ownership of the...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft's open source arguments are arrogant, says IBM
News IBM has called Microsoft's recent attacks on the open source business model "arrogance", blasting them as futile and counterproductive. In recent weeks, Microsoft executives have launched an all-out propaganda war against open source software...
[July 5, 2001, 12:37]
FSF disputes anti-GPLv3 arguments
News The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued vehemently against new features in an update of the widely used General Public License (GPL).
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
Arguments presented in DVD cracking case
News California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called DVD-cracking software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing" during a hearing before the California Supreme Court on Thursday. The program DeCSS is a burglary tool," Lockyer told the...
[May 30, 2003, 8:05]
US judge weighs DVD copying arguments
News The judge in a closely watched US lawsuit challenging the legality of DVD-copying software said she was "substantially persuaded" by past court rulings that favoured copyright holders, but closed a hearing on Thursday without issuing a ruling in...
[May 16, 2003, 7:47]
IBM faces cancer victims in court
News Lawyers are set to begin arguments this week in a landmark legal case that seeks to hold IBM responsible for alleged toxic chemical poisoning of employees at its manufacturing plants. The case, which should see opening arguments go before a jury in...
[November 4, 2003, 8:20]
Court to decide Kazaa's US liability
News A Los Angeles federal judge will hear arguments Monday as to whether record companies and movie studios can sue the parent company of Kazaa, the most popular online file-swapping service, in the United States.
[November 25, 2002, 8:29]
Microsoft trial back in court
News The Microsoft trial will be back in front of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Tuesday, as each side presents its closing arguments. Attorneys for both sides will sum up the arguments they've presented in the 11-month long trial, trying to convince...
[September 20, 1999, 11:59]
Microsoft: It's all a conspiracy against us
News Microsoft on Tuesday systematically denied every accusation levelled against it by the Department of Justice in final arguments in the landmark antitrust case before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Earlier in the day US attorneys had made their...
[September 22, 1999, 9:30]
Here's what Microsoft will tell the judge
News Microsoft Corp.will file on Tuesday an abridged version of arguments its lawyers have sounded since the company's antitrust trial began last September, according to sources familiar with the software maker's strategy.
[August 9, 1999, 8:41]
Back to court for Microsoft and DoJ
News It's back to Washington on Tuesday for Microsoft and the government, where lawyers for both sides will present their last arguments before the presiding judge hands down a final ruling in this landmark antitrust trial.
[February 22, 2000, 9:37]
Adobe hacking case goes to jury
News The fate of the ElcomSoft criminal case is now in the hands of a jury, after both sides finished closing arguments in federal court in San Jose, California on Thursday morning. After both sides finished their arguments Thursday, Federal Judge...
[December 13, 2002, 7:56]
Oracle attacks US government's case
News Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its $7.7bn (£4.17bn) bid to buy PeopleSoft in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial on Monday. But Scott got bogged down at several points as he...
[June 8, 2004, 10:40]
Sudden reversal: Experts say Microsoft could win
News Going into the oral arguments, the government faced serious challenges to several portions of its case, but by no means enough to overturn everything. That conclusion comes after two days of oral arguments, where questions from seven appeals judges...
[February 28, 2001, 14:50]
US begins patent probe
News Tuesday's arguments are the only ones that will be heard in the case. During hour-long oral arguments in a case that's closely watched by the business community, Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that an existing federal court test for...
[November 29, 2006, 7:44]
Java spat brews up court battle
News US District Judge Frederick Motz in Baltimore has scheduled three to four days of arguments in this case, which alleges Microsoft tried to strong-arm the Java programming language out of existence. On Tuesday, both sides will present opening...
[December 3, 2002, 9:08]
Jackson pulled into throes of MS-DoJ fray
News The US Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments in the case on 26 and 27 February. In a scheduling order issued Tuesday afternoon, the Court of Appeals included time during oral arguments to address Jackson's...
[February 7, 2001, 10:28]
Supreme Court rules in favour of eBay
News During oral arguments before the Supreme Court on 29 March, eBay argued that the appeals court's interpretation resulted in "near automatic" injunctions. About six weeks after hearing oral arguments, the justices on Monday ruled (click here for PDF...
[May 16, 2006, 10:00]
